Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Means of Policy; Chapter 2 The Themes of Policy; Chapter 3 The Changes of a New Reign, 1727–1731; Chapter 4 Facing a New Situation, 1731–1733; Chapter 5 The Excise Crisis, the War of the Polish Succession, and British Foreign Policy, 1733; Chapter 6 Neutrality in Europe, 1734–1735; Chapter 7 Without Allies, 1736–1738; Chapter 8 To War with Spain, 1738–1739; Chapter 9 War and the Fall of the Ministry, 1740–1742; Chapter 10 A Patriot Foreign Policy?, 1742–1744; Chapter 11 Return of the ‘Old Corps’, 1744; Chapter 12 Conclusions;

About the Author

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of over 100 books, especially on eighteenth-century British politics and international relations, and is or has been on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Military History, the journal of the Royal United Services Institute, Media History, the International History Review, and History Today, and was editor of Archives.

Reviews

'[Contains] all the features that one would expect from a Black publication: detailed and extensive engagement with a wide variety of archival material and a desire to reconstruct the messiness and indeterminacy of the diplomatic process.' Diplomacy and Statecraft